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Saturday mornings in the Back Park allotment are still continuing for a few more weeks this season (from 10am) and Cinder Lane smartening will be still continuing on Mondays from 7pm

There will also be an opportunity to join the St Michael Le Belfrey church group on the evenings of September 15, October 20 and then a fireworks party on Saturday November 5 at the vicarage any FoLP volunteers who would like to join in.

Upcoming things that will need plenty of help...

- Installing our new bins and publicity boards
- Applying anti-graffiti paint to the brick walls
- General Autumn leaf clearance and prune-back to make sure we don't have lingering debris over winter.

Our Vision

Welcome to the Friends of Leeman Park. We are a group of volunteers started in August 2014 with a vision to smarten and enhance Leeman Park, Back Park and our overall neighbourhood.

On Monday a group from "Payback" community service have been and painted over some of the graffiti on the wall (which has saved our volunteers a job!). We are very grateful for this great work, and is certainly a step in the right direction for the wall, although much more still to do.

Today I was interviewed by Robbie Burns from the Vale Online, York's newest radio station. In the interview I explained what our group is all about, how it started, how it was so easy to set up, and how overwhelming it has been to get so many volunteers together already in just the first month.

The group have now turned our attention to the weeds down Cinder Lane. At about half a mile long, it's slow but sure progress. We're simply starting at one end and making our way to the other. We also plan to re-find the path/grass edge just like we did at Back Pack, as well as tidying the long grass and weeds around the trees where the council mowers can't reach. It's just a case of making progress one step at a time!

In our second week of volunteering activity we decided to target our efforts towards Back Park so that it is smartened up in time for the forthcoming community barbeque.

The path and park edges have been re-found and a general clear up of all the gulleys, tree bases etc. has left it looking smart again. We've also recruited a few more volunteers who saw us working and asked to join in.

On our second day of volunteering we had seven volunteers, plus one 'junior' daughter of a volunteer providing entertainment and a helping hand. We we also helped by Jenny from the Smarter York scheme at York Council. We continued our work on Cinder Lane, this time taking the maintenance further up the path as far as St Barnabas Church.

Next week we will continue by progressing with Back Park, since there is due to be a community barbecue on the park the subsequent week, so we think it would be best to make our mark before the celebrations rather than after!

Four of our band of fifteen volunteers met this evening for the first event. We tidied the edges, cut back overhanging bush and tidied round the trees at the top end of Cinder Lane nearest Jubilee Terrace.